A GEOLOGY BY SUSAN ELBE

A GEOLOGY BY SUSAN ELBE

Art: “Amor” by Amparo Noguera A GEOLOGY based on First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,                                                 the first collected edition of 36 Shakespeare plays.   Open under glass to Hamlet’s soliloquy, the...
The Bridges to April by Susan Elbe

The Bridges to April by Susan Elbe

Art Credit: “Bois de Vincennes” by Baptiste Charruyer THE BRIDGES TO APRIL 1   We’ve all got coughs, January rattles that won’t quit. Our necks wrapped in warm scarves against the cold night, we trail one by one into the ill-lit bar. Some...
Song for Lard by Susan Elbe

Song for Lard by Susan Elbe

Art Credit: “Confusione” by Vivian Nimue Wood Valle d’ Aosta SONG FOR LARD I sing for pig fat, for leaf lard, fatback, caul fat, for the small white icebergs my grandmother dropped into a black iron skillet she never washed, only swiped with newsprint and put on the...